Duvernoy Sonatinas Quotes & Sayings

Why do you always wear black?"
"I am mourning for my life. — Anton Chekhov

William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.7 — Sogyal Rinpoche

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces. — Etienne De La Boetie

The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now. — Don Rickles

I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game. — Jake Gyllenhaal

Human beings cannot live without challenge. We cannot live without meaning. Everything ever achieved we owe to this inexplicable urge to reach beyond our grasp, do the impossible, know the unknown. The Upanishads would say this urge is part of our evolutionary heritage, given to us for the ultimate adventure: to discover for certain who we are, what the universe is, and what is the significance of the brief drama of life and death we play out against the backdrop of eternity. — Anonymous

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people. — Sherrod Brown

Compassion nourishes the wilted heart. — Jana Fayne Kolpen

The less people know about me, the easier my job is. — Jack Nicholson